Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, has arrived in the southern regional capital of Juba to deliver what could be his final address in the region. He will also meet with local ministers ahead of his country’s upcoming vote on secession.

ZAHEDAN: Cancellation of the Baloch citizens’ identity cards on the bases of false and bogus reports is violation of the Iranian rules and basic rights of Balochs, that’s why some of them have joined anti state parties, Shaikh Abdul Hameed said on Friday. The great leader of Sunnis in Zahedan more added, ‘It happened frequently […]

Two US-led service members have been killed in southern Afghanistan on New Year’s Day as 2010 was marked as the bloodiest year in the nine-year-old invasion of the country.

At least 670 people were killed and hundreds injured in a barrage of non-UN-sanctioned US drone strikes in Pakistan in 2010 amid growing discontent over the operations.

A huge gathering of tribal elders have called for an immediate end to the ongoing non-UN-sanctioned drone attacks in the northwestern Pakistan. The tribal meeting in northwestern city of Peshawar expressed serious concern over civilian casualties in drone strikes, a Press TV correspondent reported on Thursday. Several prominent leaders of political and Islamic parties also […]

KARACHI/LAHORE: A complete shutter down strike is being observed all over the country today in connection with Tahafuz-e-Namose-e-Risalat. Routine life was suspended as shops and markets throughout the metropolis and in major cities remained closed and traffic remained thin, with public transport largely absent.

A delegation of three West African presidents who met with incumbent Cote d’Ivoire leader Laurent Gbagbo to deliver an ultimatum to step down or face force has left saying more meetings were needed.

Another US-led soldier has lost his life in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan, taking the foreign forces’ death toll to 709 in this year. The soldier reportedly belonging to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan — known as ISAF — was killed in a bomb blast on Tuesday, according to an ISAF statement.

The Taliban movement is disputing a U.N. report that asserts the number of civilians killed by them has risen but those slain by the invaders has dropped. The group said in a statement that the recently-issued quarterly report is part of an “effort to cover up the brutal actions of Americans.”

The U.S.-led coalition violated a security agreement in Kabul when its troops raided a private security company in the capital and killed two guards, the Interior Ministry spokesman in occupied Afghanistan said Sunday.